By Anna Rose Garvey This year saw the launch of Ballymun Community Films on the IFI Archive Player, the culmination of a five-year project between Ballymun Communications and the IFI Irish Film Archive, funded by Coimisiún na Meán. Over 1,000 hours were digitised and catalogued in the IFI Irish Film Archive. A showcase of more … Read more
By Anna Rose Garvey In this issue we explore three films on the IFI Archive Player that celebrate Irish artists. The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, previously the Department of External Affairs, was one of the many state bodies to commission films to be produced on its behalf. The National Film Institute, now … Read more
By Anna Rose Garvey In this issue we take a closer look at four films that focus on acts of protest. The first example is the film Lord Mayor of Cork Dead (1920) from the Irish Independence Film Collection, a British Pathé newsreel documenting the funeral procession of Terence MacSwiney through London and his final … Read more
By Sunniva O’Flynn In this issue we take a look at the recently launched collection of Irish film-maker Louis Marcus. Born in Cork in 1936, Marcus made his directorial debut in 1959 with The Silent Art about his friend, sculptor Seamus Murphy. After working as assistant editor on Mise Éire in 1958, Marcus created a … Read more
By Anna Rose Garvey In this issue, we take a closer look at two films from a collection available on the IFI Archive Player that brings us through a key period in Irish history. These two clips were filmed as newsreels in the early twentieth century by British Pathé and the Topical Film Company. Held … Read more